Power Rangers belong to Haim Saban. I'm not writing this to get fame, or money, but a few good reviews would be nice (although I'd be happy with the bad ones if they are constructive).
This chapter will probably be somewhat long because I'm running out of time in the editing process. I hope that you will still enjoy it.
On with the story:
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Months went by. Adam and Kristen announced to their various families that they were planning on getting married as soon as they could get their parents to sign the papers. This was a joyous announcement to Kris' parents. Adam's parents gave permission with a little more thought. Then they realized that the two of them were going to do what they were going to do anyway. They could go along with it, or they could just postpone things maybe another two years.
Little realized by the power rangers, the other side was not just hanging around. A plan had been hatched where a female operative would be assigned to seduce a member of the team away to their side.
Rahne was thinking about her less than comfortable childhood. She was the only daughter of the only person to this point be successful in escaping Adam and his bunch of cut throat murderers. When Eve found out who she was, she went out of her way to make certain that she remained loyal to the right side of the family. Rahne spent many days in psionic mental conditioning. She was threatened repeatedly with being turned over to the Rape classes as an object lesson. What caught Adam's attention to send her on this type of mission was that when Caine tried to rape her, what she did to him was medically fixable…. Barely. So she got this mission.
"I have every confidence in your skills." Adam said. "Your mission is to bind one of the Power Rangers to you. Then you will bring him here for recruitment. Your marks from your seduction training were top of the class, so this shouldn't take you long."
Eve gave the young lady a look. "You know what will happen if you fail us. And don't even think of betraying us to the side of light. You think you'll be as lucky as Seth, but you won't. Now go."
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It was a quiet day in Angel Grove. Kristen Belmont and Adam Park were sitting in a quiet corner after a Martial Arts class that Adam had taught and Kris had assisted with. They were about to order a quiet lunch when all at once Rocky DeSantos came rushing into the Youth Center.
"Hey Guys!" he said. "I've just seen the most beautiful woman that I've ever seen in my life."
"Keep talking like THAT Rock and you may make Adam jealous." Kris couldn't resist the joke and Adam wouldn't disagree with the implication.
"No, I didn't mean you although every member of your family that I've met was gorgeous." Rocky settled down in thought. "I've got to find a way to meet this girl. I've even found out her name. The people I've spoke to say that her name was Rain Sinclair. Even her name is perfect."
Adam who'd been watching his friend's happiness with a touch of amusement suddenly said, "is that her?" He pointed toward the entrance.
"Yep. That's her." Rocky said.
Kris looked that way. The woman that she saw COULD have been born to the Freeman side of the family. She had that Golden Blonde look. But there was something about this girl that Kris couldn't bring herself to trust. She wouldn't say anything to Rocky or Adam YET because she didn't normally have Clairvoyant flashes.
"Well," Kristen observed. "It looks like she's heading this way."
The look on Rocky's face was priceless as he asked "I wonder what she wants?"
"It looks like you're about to find out," observed Adam.
Rahne had decided that until she made up her mind to escape, that she should at least go through the motions of her mission. She was surely being watched. She lucked out and on her first day managed to catch the attention of the Red Ninjetti Ranger. A subtle empathic prompting had set his teen-aged hormones boiling. She'd followed him to the Youth Center, and lo and behold she ran directly into one of the family on the light side. This could be tricky.
"Good evening." Rahne said in a slightly Scottish brogue. My name is Rahne Sinclair. I was looking for a Martial Arts instructor to continue with my training. I've been asking around and I'm told that Rocky DeSantos is one of the better ones around." She looked at Rocky, winked, and said "so would you be interested in a student?"
Kris looked at Rocky and then thought to him, 'well, you wanted to get to know the girl, what are you waiting for?'
"Sure, if you'll have me for a teacher." Rocky was rather pleased with himself.
New teacher and student left arm in arm to continue their plans for classes. During the next three weeks, the enemy was extremely silent. Also during those three weeks, the Rangers saw less and less of Rocky. It got to the point that even Adam was starting to notice it. Then one night, after spending the day with his lovely fiancé, Adam Park was asleep in bed when he had a strange dream.
The dream was of a small girl with red hair. She had almond shaped emerald green eyes. She was skipping rope and coming toward him.
"You need to keep an eye on Uncle Rocky." The little girl said. "That girl Rahne was raised to be bad. She could be a very nice person, only she doesn't know what she herself could be. I don't know if she's got the strength not to do what she's been told to do by the bad man and woman."
The little girl stopped skipping and looked up at Adam with those emerald eyes, (that sort of reminded him of Kris's).
"The bad man and woman threatened her to do something for them. She needs help, and doesn't even know it herself." After saying this, the little girl began skipping away.
"Hey!" said Adam, "who are you?"
The little girl turned around long enough to say, "If you haven't figured that out, I've picked the wrong father."
A sweat soaked Adam sat straight up in bed. His pulse was racing at least 120 beats per minute. He'd just gotten up to go to call Kris, when the phone rang.
"What's wrong?" Kristen's voice came from the phone. "I sense that you're in some kind of distress. I'm coming over."
Adam just had time to say "OK" when a doorway opened up.
"Come here." Kris said.
Adam felt a soothing mental touch on his mind.
Since it's bad manners to reach to find what's wrong, you're going to have to tell me or give me permission.
Adam told her about the dream. The startled look on Kris's face was priceless.
"Adam," Kris said, "Remember the night that you proposed a couple of weeks ago?"
Adam blushed deeply. "How could I forget. I'm just now getting to where I can walk straight."
"I found something out." Kris suddenly looked bashful. "We're going to be parents. Don't worry about the money. It's taken care of. I already know that it's going to be a little girl. If what I think is happening is happening, then she's going to be psionic on the level of her Uncle Ryan or cousin Daytripper. Don't let this scare you."
Kris hugged Adam rather fiercely, and then looked directly in the eyes.
"There's something about pregnancy on my side of the family. The baby is growing at an accelerated rate. I'm going to have to stop going on missions with the team soon." Kris searched Adam's face trying to find any trace of his feelings. "You need to tell me what you're thinking right now. Remember?"
"I…" Adam paused. "To be honest, I don't know what to think. If you think we'll be okay, then I guess we'll do this the best way we can. I think though, if your pregnancy is going to advance as quickly as you seem to hint, we're gonna need to tell Zordon."
"That would be a wise move," she said. "But, the point that I'm trying to make is that from what you've experienced tonight, our daughter may be as powerful as Ryan or even Daytripper psionically. It seems that she has chosen to warn you of something. It may be prudent to heed that warning."
"Rocky may be in danger then." Adam said. "She hinted that Rahne had something to do with the other side."
"Let's go talk with Zordon."
The pair of teens teleported to the command center. Alpha, when presented with their situation, went to awaken Zordon.
Zordon took one look at the two and said "Yes Adam. Kris IS pregnant. The child appears to be approximately 6 weeks along."
"That fits," said Kris. It sounds like this is going to be one of the 3 for 1 babies. I'm going to have to go on leave soon."
"As soon as we find someone to take your place on the team." Zordon said.
"I've an idea who it should be. But that will be taken care of in time. I'll see to it." Kristen was being mysterious but she didn't care.
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Eve had been planning again. Rahne had had three weeks to complete the seduction of her chosen ranger. Now was the time to force the issue of a civilian finding out who they were.
"Send a Balor to Angel Grove," she said. "He's to Move around causing as much havoc as he can, then after the rangers appear he's only to make a TOKEN resistance then leave."
The Balor went to Angel Grove Park. Following the instructions that she had received Rahne brought Rocky to the park on a picnic. The Balor appeared less than 100 yards away. Rocky had time to yell "RUN" before the Balor began throwing fire around himself.
Pretending to be the weakling she was supposed to be Rahne acted the part of the coward and ran. Rocky thinking that she was out of the way and out of sight morphed.
"Adam, Kristen," said an agitated Alpha to the pair still at the command center. "There's a MAJOR disturbance in the park. I'll call the rest of the team, you go there now."
"But what about the baby?" Adam asked.
"I'm able to protect her for now. I will look for someone to take my place, but for now I'm still on the team." Kristen seemed slightly annoyed.
The rest of the team got to Angel Grove Park at about the same time. It was pretty good that they did too because the Balor was kicking Rocky's ass. As the rest of the team entered into the fight, a lone figure from the botanical gardens appeared around a corner. He held up a slip of paper in front of his face, and appeared to be praying. The calligraphy on the slip of paper glowed for one moment and he threw it at the demon.
The Rangers were more formidable this way than the Balor had expected. It'd come fully prepared to kill (which it liked to do and didn't like to be limited.) Then the paper stuck to it's back when it least expected.
The Balor stiffened and screamed. Then it faded out of existence. Mr. Ko walked back around the corner towards the gardens. Nobody saw him. The only evidence was the slip of paper that fell to the ground from the banished demon.
The team powered down.
"Rocky, are you okay?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah, I'm okay but I need to go find Rahne." Rocky started to move away. "She and I were on a picnic when that thing showed. She's probably scared crazy."
"Rocky! About Rahne." Adam began.
"We'll talk later." Rocky continued to move away and was soon lost from sight in the terrain.
"Hey Guys." Kristen exclaimed. "I found out what happened to the demon."
Kris was picking up the paper.
"My Chinese isn't as good as it could be, but this looks like a charm spell for dispelling evil." She handed the paper to the rest of the team. "I didn't know we had oriental priests of this power level anywhere near here."
"I don't know for sure," said Adam. "Eventually, if it's necessary, we'll find out." Adam threw a speculative look in the directions of the Gardens.
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Rocky found Rahne sitting on a bench on the other side of the park.
"There's things about yourself that you didn't see fit to tell me." Rahne said.
'Why does her brogue get thicker when she's emotional?' thought Rocky. "What do you mean?" he said.
"When you didn't follow right away" explained Rahne, "I went back to help fight. I'm almost as good as you are and I'm sorta attached to you."
"When was that?" Rocky was starting to feel nervous.
"I crested the hill in time to see you turn into the Red Power Ranger." Her look was accusing. "Why didn't you tell me? I thought that you cared for me as much as I cared for you." 'The bad thing' she thought, ' is that I really DO care for him. If I had a way out right now, I'd do so.'
"It was a secret." Rocky knew he was dead to rights and didn't see why he should deny it. "You can't tell anybody. Please."
"Oh, I won't." Rahne seemed shocked at the idea. "I keep other people's secrets."
"Yes," said a voice from behind them. "You do."
Rocky and Rahne turned to see Kristen and Adam walking over the hill.